2006. "Legacies of Common Law: `Crimes of Honour' in India and Pakistan." Third World Quarterly 27(7): 1239-1253.Baxi, P., Rai, S. M. and S. S. Ali (2006) 'Legacies of Common Law: Crimes of Honour in India and Pakistan,' Third World Quarterly (The Politics of Rights: ...
Through a comparative analysis of crimes of 'honour' in India and Pakistan and an examination of appellate judgments from the two countries, we reflect upon how a rights-based discourse of modern nation-states forms a complex terrain where citizenship of the state and membership of communities are...
Rautenbach, Christa, and Matthee, Jacques, Common Law Crimes and Indigenous Customs: Dealing with the Issues in South African Law, 61 Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial (2010).Rautenbach, Christa, and Jacques Matthee. 2010. Common Law Crimes and Indigenous Customs: Dealing with the ...
common law countriesThe purpose of this article is to consider the approach to prosecuting war crimes in a handful of common law countries. Of particular focus will be the AustraliBoas, Gideon JohnSocial Science Electronic PublishingBoas, G., `War Crimes Prosecutions in Australia and other Common...
aA tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong[1] which unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act, called a tortfeasor. Although crimes may be torts, the cause of legal action is not necessarily a ...
Indirect Perpetration versus Joint Criminal Enterprise: Concurring Approaches in the Practice of International Criminal Law? This article addresses the well-known problem of establishing individual criminal responsibility for the commission of international crimes. In particular,... S.,Manacorda,C.,... ...
For example, Belgian law recognizes that certain crimes (i.e., defamation) require a formal complaint by the victim in order for the public prosecutor to initiate a criminal case. Even in that event, however, the public prosecutor is not obligated to file charges. In Germany, a victim may...
[...]police stations to the amount of time strictly necessary for any arrest and to separate foreigners awaiting expulsion from peoplebeingquestionedforcommonlawcrimes. daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org (b) 限制在警察局的留置期限,以可能的逮捕程序及将驱逐针对的 外国人与普通法罪行疑犯隔开程...
Based on US and British regulations in force, this article offers an overview of legislation of two Common Law countries in the area of modern forms of law
The UK - US legal system´s basic classification is the law and the balance law. 英美法系的基本分类是普通法和衡平法。—— 给力词典精选 3. As one special principle of common law system, strict liability can control crimes effectively. 严格责任是英美法系所特有的一项原则,对于犯罪可以有效控制...